An age of neutrals : great power politics, 1815-1914 /
Abbenhuis, Maartje M.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-275) and index.
Introduction : It is not the neutrals or lukewarms that make history -- Neutrality on the eve of the industrial age -- Neutrality, neutralisation and the Concert of Europe -- The neutrals' war : Britain and the global implications of the Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- How to be neutral : negotiating neutrality in the wars of nationhood, 1859-1871 -- Neutrality as an international and patriotic ideal -- Regulating neutrality from The Hague to The Hague, 1899-1907 -- Neutral no more : neutrality and the origins of the First World War -- Conclusion : International law's 'finest and most fragile flower'.
Neutrality